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Project Venus Topco Limited
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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Previous officers 14
- Anthony David Johnson 2026-2026 View profile
- Andrea Jayne Davis 2025-2026 View profile
- Nicholas Daniel Hugh 2024-2026 View profile
- Timothy Grainger Weller 2024-2025 View profile
- Giles Edward Kilbourn 2024-2025 View profile
- Patrick Noel Foley 2023-2025 View profile
- Guy Daniel Simon 2023-2026 View profile
- Daniel Smith 2022-2024 View profile
- Thomas William Reece 2022-2023 View profile
- Alyn Rhys North 2022-2023 View profile
- Robert Mackenzie Gay 2021-2026 View profile
- Matthew Cannon 2021-2026 View profile
- Mark Robert James Turner 2021-2022 View profile
- David John Kirby 2021-2022 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Activities of financial services holding companies
- Incorporated
- 26/08/2021
- Registered office
- London
- Previous names
- Footco 25 Limited (until 13/09/2021)
Ownership
Owned by (4) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Matthew Cannon ceased 2026-06-19
25-50% shares, 25-50% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-09-22 - confirmed: also a director of this company - Media Scale Capital Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2026-06-19 - FIS Nominee Limited ceased 2021-09-16
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-08-26 - Livingbridge 7 Global LP ceased 2026-06-19
50-75% shares, 50-75% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-09-16
Group
- Project Venus Topco Limited
is controlled by Matthew Cannon
Evidence
ceased 25-50% shares, 25-50% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-09-22, ceased 2026-06-19 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Matthew Cannon.
5 other companies in this group
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Financials
- Net assets
- -£115,233,640
- Total assets
- £18,599,313
- Cash
- £7,305,170
- Employees
- 0.97
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
- Profit/loss
- -£37,272,067
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-03-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
1 directors on the board
- Joost Adrianus Maria Merks Director · appointed 2026
Left in the last 12 months
- Anthony David Johnson Director · appointed 2026 · resigned 2026
- Guy Daniel Simon Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2026
- Patrick Noel Foley Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2025
- Giles Edward Kilbourn Director · appointed 2024 · resigned 2025
- Robert Mackenzie Gay Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2026
- Nicholas Daniel Hugh Director · appointed 2024 · resigned 2026
- Andrea Jayne Davis Director · appointed 2025 · resigned 2026
- Matthew Cannon Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2026
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Gaps to watch
- A single director - no second pair of eyes on any decision
Where to look Suggested search: a second director to remove single-point control.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 13588236
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Accounts next due
- 31/12/2026
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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